Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1896—TWELVE PAG ES. The political information Sot —contained in The Evening Star Almanac will prove of great value to every one who is interested in poli- tics. In it are carefully* compiled tables explaining the vote by congressional election. eek hongeedeodeedendendentondzeeegngeedeageeds of reference. 25 cents a COpy== Star. | | Saloatontontondontententintintentinteny Rentententenestorochondontontortontone districts in the last congressional Also state election returns for 1892 and 1894—as well as the electoral vote from 1789 to 1892. In addition, there are many re- licble statistics and a chapter upon the money of the United States— which make it invaluable as a book For sale at all news stands and at the counting room of The Evening Settee feeeeaetectenteotecfonge MARYLAND DOUBTFUL Chaotic Condition of Both Republican and Democratic Politics. ‘The Third Party Men Will Put Up « Ticket Notwithstanding the Op- position of John K. Cowen. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. UTIMORE, Md., August close of the fi wiil see the national campaign in Maryland well under way, and within a few days Political affairs here will be subjected to an amcunt of attention they have not knowr for months. The democratic head- quarters at Carrollton will be opened for business next week, and the turn cf Serator-el ington igning tour in Maine will of activity at the re that has not been evidence during his absence. Although the 2 scarcely be said to have and no events of strfking rred during the past affairs have not been n at a sta . as the an head- “rs tion of popular interest are ned to the city, but in ttended gatherings are every hand, and vet- being addr. eran politicians sey ihey never observed as gre -st in a national election played this year. Altho: e “utmost confidence” is In- dicated both by the republicans on the one de and the regular dem on the other, the impression is gaining ground that nothing but the most determined ef- fert ean throttle the silver sentiment, and the advocates of are experi- encing no little a s study the situation. Conser ve judges are inclin- ing to the belief that if Me y is to he state, t ulk of his strength 2 fou timore, and the pub- lican manag. n advised to con- centraie tb on the city, as there the ave a better opportunity of ts to the voters than can be presenting fa , the counties. rgued, are more sus- han country crowds, of the bolting democrats rea: vote which McKinley and Hobart are expected te receive it is thought t a substantial majority in Baltimore may be used to over- come any possible obstacles to success en- countered in the country vote. Silver Sentiment. ile the claims and counter claims of en iastic partisans as to the number of bolting democrats and silver republicans are doubtless highly exaggerated, impar- tial judges believe that In the counties, at least, the Chicago nominees will gain rather than lose by this breaking over party Ines. Ex-Senator Robert Moss of Anne Arundel, who is one of the most Prominent candidates for the democratie congressional nomination in the fifth dis- trict, in speaking of the situation in Anne Arundel, qd that he had never known such enthusiasm as is shown in the free coinage sentiment in his county. “I have made a very thorough examina- 1 Mr. Mo: “and I tind that of ail the democrats in the county only eight are unwilling to vote for Bryan and Sew- all. The most striking fact, in my judg- ment, is that those who are most aggres- sive in championing the Chicago platform and nominees are the very ones who voted for Lowndes last year. The party is unit- ec and harmonious and will hear of noth- ing but free silver. Why, the farmers who have been getting tons of gold literature sent out by the Honest Money League un- der Mr. John K. Cowen’s frank are sending it back to him unopened. There are also plenty of silver republicans in the county who will vote our ticket.” Chief Judge Page of the court of appeals and other democrats of prominence make statements similar to that of ex-Senator Moss, and it is evident from talks had with democrats from almost every section during the past week that the supporters of Bryan and Sewall really believe that they are going to carry Maryland by a large majoority. In fact, there is no doubt whatever that these gentlemen are perfect- ly sinc2re In their statements, for such is the character of most of them that it is impossible to believe for a moment that they are merely bluffing. McKinley Followers. On the other side there 1s equal confi- ence. Such men as Congressman Wm. B. Baker of Harford county, Judge Ed- ward Stake of Washington county, Chief Clerk Martin M. Higgins of the house of delegates of Talbot, and other republicans of equal high character and prominence make equally strong claims for their side of the case, and assert with all evidence of sincerity that they have every reason to believe that McKinley will carry the state by a substantial majority. The truth Probably is that in the chaotic condition ef affairs resulting from the loosening of party ties during the last campaign and the further breakmg down of party bar- riers as the result of the Chicago conven- tlon’s work, it is impossible to determine just what the effect will be on election day, and at the present time the safest plan will be to place Maryland in the doubtful column. The sound money democrats have de- cided to send delegates to the Indianapolis convention, and have postponed action on the question of nominating an ciectoral 4 ticket until after the nominations are made at Indianapol Against a Third Ticket. The probability is that a third electoral ticket will be placed in the field. While Congressman John K. Cowen, Postmaster S. D. Warfield aad United States District Attorney Marbury and their followers are opposed to a third ticket, their opposition 1 probably prove futile. They exerted all their power to prevent the election of delegates to Indianapoiis, but were over- Whelmingly defeated. The sentiment among a large number of the leading sound money democrats in favor of a third ticket is growing stronger every day. They are backed in this by ex-Gov. Whyte, ex-Con- gressman Rayner, President Bruce of the State senate, and other leaders. These gen- tlemen are emphatic in their opinion that there is no hope of defeating Bryan in Maryland, unless a third tcket is put up, and their wishes will probably have greater weigat than those of Mr. Cowen and his folllowars. On Thursday of next week the republi- can state committee will meet to arrange for the campaign. The committee will also be called upon to settle a dispute of some importance which has arisen between Chairman Wellington and his old friend Capt. H. Clay Nail of Frederick, who has for a long time been secretary of the com- mittee. As a result of this dispute Secr tary Naill has not been near the head quarters opened by Mr. Wellington, but has opened rooms of his own in the Hotel Baltimore. The dispute has caused con- siderable comment, as both sides have their partisans, and some of the language used in the discussion would not be con- sidered decent in print. Mr. John Hubner of Baltimore county, an ex-speaker of the house of delegates, 1s announced as a candidate for the demo- cratic nomination for Congress in the fifth district. Mr. Hubner ts a man of large wealth, and should he be nominated Mr. Mudd would probably be obliged to exert himself to his utmost to win. The con- vention will meet in Baltimore on Thurs- day next. ———__ THRONGED TO HEAR BRYAN. Nearly a Panic Caused by Thousands Crowding on Chautauqua Lake. William J. Bryan spoke Saturday night in the Convention Hall at Celeron, on Lake Chautauqua, two miles from Jamestown, N. Y. The determination of twice as many people as the hall could hold to hear the presidential candidate resulted in a crush, which would have ended in great loss of life if the panic, which for an hour seemed imminent, had not been prevented. Mr. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. | Joseph C. Sibley and members of the local committee pushed thelr way through a crush to the chairs reserved for them at 9 o'clock. The candidate was instantly recog- nized, and the cheer which his entrance kindled was one more intense and shrill than any which he had heard since the Chicago convention. Fully 12,000 persons were in the hall. Viewed from the platform, the whole audi- torium was a struggling mob, while over- head men clung like monkeys to the rafters. ‘There were 50v persons in the center aisle, and those in front were in danger of being crushed to death. Women were shrieking, and on the platform the few ladies there sat with white faces. Mr. Bryan, Mr. Sib- ley and several committeemen took turns appealing to those in the aisles and the back of the hall to go out, but they could not, although many tried. ‘One man called out: “Don’t speak, Bryan; don’t. Go home. This is dang-rous.”” Mr. Bryan said he would not speak, and started to leave, Mr. Sibley making the an- nouncement that the meeting would have to be abandoned unless a part of the audi- ence couid be driven out. Half a dozen Policemen struggled to clear the middle aisle. Word was finally shouted that Mr. Sibley would make 32; Outdoor speech. ‘Thirty-five minutes a: Mr. Bryan had first attempted to speak, he made the sec- end beginning, and thd)speeeh” finished without accident. ij ea ‘The enthusiasm of tle night, apart from its troubles, was greater than Mr. Bryan has seen since the Chicago convention. His speech was devoted to the fii cial ques- tion, and in beginning ihe said that if the people crowded so to hear about free silver in the banner republican county, he would aot ren to bring them out in a democratic county. The address delivered by Mr. By largely on the lines of his speech at Hore nelisville during the afternoon. He accused his political opponents of having forced issue after issue of bonds regardless of prices and of the taxpayers who had to pay the prices. He spoke of the democratic administration as one whose financial policy had aroused the ire of producers of wealth The republican party, he said, lost Its op. portunity in not denouncing that policy and not offering to give the people silver. If the republican party had espoused the cause of the people, no human agency, said Mr. Bryan, could have prevented its victory in this campaign. He laid particular stress upon the claim of the republican party that it had struck the shackles from all the slaves, and he gained great applause by his statement that it was now attempting to fasten the fetters upon 70,000,000 freemen. ——+e+____ Fusion on Congressmen, - The conference committee from the Call- fornia executive committees of Populists and democrats is trying to fuse on Con- gressmen. In order to bring this about resignations were called for, and Maguire, Patton and Devries have already resigned nominations in order to leave the commit- tee free to put up a joint congressional ticket of part democrats and part populists. A strong effort is being made to secure other resignations, but Monteith, populist, refuses positively to resign, and this may prevent the successful outcome of fusion. soseenneoeououosorsesers\IN BRYAN’S STATE Fierce Contest Between Two Wings of the Democratic Party.’ A SHARP STRUGGLE FOR REGULARITY The Result Clouded With Doubt at This Stage. SHARING UP PLACES Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. OMAHA, August 28, 1996. The fight between the two wings of the Nebraska democracy, which was first pre- cipitated by William J. Bryan in the s convention at Lincoln, October 4, 1893, Bas grewn in proportions and bitterness from that day to this. When, in the state con- vention in Omaha in September, 1894, Mr. Bryan, as leader of the silver democrats, surrendered the convention to the populists and indorsed most of the populist state ticket, the administration democrats walk- ed out of the convention and formed a separate and distinct orgamzation. The re- sult of this split was the nomination last fall of T. J. Mahoney for the supreme berch by the administration wing and the nemination of C. J. Phelps by the silver wing of democracy for the supreme bench, The relative strength of these two factions was clearly shown by the vote given these two opposing democratic nominees. Ma- honey received something over 1,00 vctes, while Phelps, the silverite, received 10,000 odd votes. ‘The siiverites applied to the supreme court to prevent tne administration demo- crats from getting a place on the official bailots. The ruling of the court in this case was to the eifect that the secretary of state could not elect, of his own motion, which of two certificates should be recox- nized by him as that of a regular party or- ganization where two factions were con- tending for the same designation. This case, however, was not formally decided until June 2, 1896, in the case of Phelps vs. Piper, in which the court says: “The legis: lature has not provided any means for de- termining such controversies. Political parties are voluntary associations for po- litical purposes. They establish their own rules. They are governed by their own usages. Voters may form them, reorganize them, and dissolve them at their will. The voters ultimately must determine every such question. The voters constituting a party are indeed the only body who can firally determine between contending fac- tions or contending organizations. The qvestion ig one essentially political and not Judicial.” The Fight Renewed. The Issues In the present campaign have intensified the differences between the two democratic factions in this state. Each will nominate electoral and state tickets. The goid democrats will call a convention to nominate such tickets soon after the In- dianapolis convention. The silverites are more emphatic than ever in asserting that the sound money democrats have no stand- ing as a party, and, therefore, are not en- titled to a place on the ballot. The gold democrats, on the other hand, contend that they have a better right to a designa- tion on the ballot as democrats thau have the silverites. In support of their position they quote the decision of the supreme court above outlined. They also cllege, and expect to be able to prove, that the so-called silver democratic convention ts, in fact, a populist convention. And on this point they will fortify themselves with a vest array of facts and affidavits. They further argue that inasmach as the su- preme court decided that the voters must decide this question at the polls, all they have to do, in case of new proceedings, is to present to the court the official report of the result of the election last fall on candi- dates for the supreme bench. These re- ports give the gold democrats about 8,000 plurality over the silver democrats. ‘The silver wing of the party, upon advice of its leaders, will, within a few days after the gold convention in this state, formally protest against the secretary of state giv- ing the candidates of that convention a place on the official ballot designated cs democratic candidates. Their contention will be that while the supreme court decis- fon of last June may have been sound at that stage of the proceedings, the action of the national convention at Chicago in de- elding this perplexing question ougat to be conclusive to the minds of the supreme ccurt justices, and that the court cannot go on interminably referring chis disputed question to the people. In support of this ground they will quote as precedent a line of cases In the New York supreme ccurt which justifies the new position they pro- pese to assume before the supreme court of this state. : War to the Knife. Chairman C. J. Smyth of the silver dem- ocrat state central committee said today that he would oppose with all his might ary effort on the part of the so-called gold democrats to get a place on the official ballots this year. He believes that in view of the action of the national convention, the supreme court of this state will finally determine the guestion as between the two rival democratic factions, and he is not ready to believe the court can con- sistently disregard its responsibility in the matter and remand the case to another adjudication at the polls. Chairman Euclid Martin of the state cen- tral committee of the gold democrats laughs at the idea of the silverites going before the supreme court again in this matter. He says the silverites are simply populists—nothing more nor less; that the gold democrats of this state number the old democrats who organized the party in this state and who have the traditions of the party from its earliest organization, forty years ago, in Nebraska. He scouts the idea of the possibility that the supreme court of this state can be induced to re- verse its decision of last June. The gold delegation to the Indianapolis convention will go to the hoosier capital expecting to vote for Watterson and Bragg as the standard bearers of the third party movement. It has been the hope of the gold democrats of Nebraska the past month that the candidacy of Secretary J. Sterling Morton mignt meet with general favor throughcut the country, and it was the expectation that the Nebraska delega- tion at Indianapolis would be able to sup- port Morton’s. cancidacy from 4rst to last. The Secretary, however, wrote a letter the ether day to Euclid Martin, state chair- man, in which he positively stated that he would not allow his name to go before the convention and requested Mr. Martin to do all in his power to induce the delegates to see to it that his name was not used at In- diarapolis in that connection, Watterson and Bragg. This is unquestionably a very great dis- appointment to many of the gold demo- crats here, and in an informal caucus the other day among the delegates and lead- ing democrats of this city a very pro- nounced sentiment was expressed by a majority in favor of Watterson and Bragg. With respect to this ticket W. D. Mc- Hugh, a prominent sound money democrat here and a close friend of J. Sterling Mor- ton’s, said that he was heartily in favor of Watterson and Bragg. “I believe,” he said, “that Watterson would make a cam- paign that would stir the whole country. He has a faculty of coining words and phrases that would become slogans all over the United States. He would break the solid south and would carry Kentucky and Several other states that might otherwise go for Bryan. His nomination would com- pel the Bryan men to spend their energies in dn effort to hold the south, and they would not be able to concentrate their en- ergies on the doubtful states in the north and west.” In regard to the nomination of General Bragg for the second place on the ticket Mr. McHugh was. equal- ly enthusiastic. Bragg was the comman- der of the famous Iron Brigade in the war, and his strength with the soldier ele- ment would be tremendous. He was also famous as the man who declared that he loved Cleveland for the enemies he had made. His nomination with Henry Wat- terson would. be indeed a union of the north and south, and with them the party would cut @ tremendous swath in the cam- paign. Euclid Martin, the recognized leader of the sound money forces, is not quite so en- thusiastic for Watterson. “I believe that ae Carlisle is the logicabtandidate at this juncture,” he said. © 3 Allotting Candidates, The thirteenth Nebragka State prohibition convention,which met-at Lincoln this week, was composed of abofit a hundred dele- gates. This is the faction of the prohibi- tion party which beiféyes that all other planks in the national;platform save the one relating to prohibition should be dis- carded. The new naffdnal party, whose state convention was held at Lincoln Au- gust 5, believes in retalming all the planks of the old prohibition platform and adding more thereto. This faction supports the candidacy of C. E. Bentley of Lincoln for President. A controversy between these two factions with respect to the designa- tions on the official ballet is likely to be made, and the presumption is that the ac- tion of the court with respect to the con- tending democratic factions will settle the controversy between the prohibitionists. The democratic state convention meets next Friday, and will end doubtless by in- dorsing the populist state ticket. There will a stubborn opposition, which is likely to be strong enough to make the convention in- teresting. Even if the populist prescription is swallowed, it will be with a wry face, that will scarcely indicate a very enthu- siastic support. Just now the one subject of interest in cennection with the convention is the dis- position of the one poor consolation that the populists left to their democratic breth- ren. If the democrats have to be contented with one place on the state ticket, they in- tend to show that their rights were not fully recognized, and they will make a des- berate fight to run their candidate for at- torney general ahead of the rest of the ticket. That their candidate will be from Omaha is generally conceded, but his iden- tity is in doubt. Just at the present time Judge E. R. Duffie seems likely to be the nominee if he will accept it. == ESSEE DEMOCRATS, TEN: Populists Will Ofixet Gold Democratic Bolters. Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. MEMPHIS, August 29, 1896. The convention held by free silver demo- crats of this, the tenth, congressional dis- trict, which this week nominated E. W. Carmack for Congress by acclamation, was a unique convention in many respects, One of the speakers sang a’ song and an- other delivered a carefully prepared paro- dy on Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar, in which silver was Caesar, and Josiah Patterson, John G. Carlisle and Grover Cleveland were villains of the deep- est dye. ‘This speaker also provoked a whirlwind of applause by fighting the bat- tle of Waterloo clean through Belshazzer's feast, and representing the Babylonian monarch as having “a sound of revelry by night,” and all that sort of thing. At the regular democratic primaries Josiah Patterson will be nominated. The populists have nominated B. J. West. The cclored republicans announce that they will put out a candidate, and the white republl- cans will certainly have a candidate. This will make five aspirants for the ccngressional honor, with a red-hot cam- paign ahead. In the ninth congressional district the bit- ter contest between J. C. McDearmon and Rice Pierce has been ended for the present by the decision of the congressional com- mittee to call a delegated convention to meet at Dyersburg on October 1. So far the republicans have done very lit- Ue in the way of open work, but they have waited to see what action the democrats would take. They will soon put out their candidates for Congress, and it is not un- likely that In some districts they will make an alliance with the populists. The com- plete returns from the election of judges of the court of chancery appeals are now in, and they indicate what lies before each party to win. ‘he highest, vote for a dem- ocratic candidate was 141,128, and the high- est for a republican was 115,056, a differ- ence of about 26,000. This vote shows con- siderable revival of interest among both parties since the gubernatorial contest of two years ago, when cach party cast about 100,000 votes. Since-the election, however, the calling of the legislature in éxtra session to provide against a deficit, estimated vartously at from $100,000 to $500,000,. has improved re- publican chances of carrying the state. there is another fa¢tor, too, which was absent from the judicial election, but will be very much in evidence in November, and that is the “sound ‘money democracy. Meetings have been held pretty generaily throughout the state, and Tennessee will be well represented ‘at Indianapolis. Of course, there are a great many sound money democrats in Memphis who propose to vote for Bryan and Sewall, as well a3 Josiah Patterson, but there is probably as large a contingent who will vote for Mc- Kinley or the Indianapolis nominees. It is safe to say that the sound money dem- ocratic vote which will not go to Bryan vill be not less than 15,000, nor more than ,000 throughout the state; but Bryan is personally popular with the populisis and @ great many of them, who have flirted around the border line between democracy ard populism, will undobtedly vote for him. It js fair to say that he will receive 20,000 votes from the populists,.or about two-thirds of their strength. In the course of a week or two the nom- inations will ull have been made, the lines Crawn aid a fair estimate of the probabill- Ue3 can be made. At present silver is in the saddle in Tennessee, but it remains to be seen whether this enthusiasm will last. > FU MINNESOTA’S SION TICKET. It is Arranged Without Dissent Quarrel. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 28, 1896. The last of the state conventions has now been held, with the result that there are Lut two tickets in the field—that of the re- publicans and that of the fusion forces. The populist ratification of the ticket last Wednesday and the naming of candidates for the two places left vacant sealed the tripartite fusion treaty between the popu- lists, democrats and silver republicans. ‘There was a good deal of surprise in polit- ical circles over the harmony that prevailed in the populist councils. None of the prom- ised contests was actualized, and the gath- ering passed off without even the fore- shadowed battle between the forces of Don- nelly and those of Owen. This result was reached by compromise, inspired, no doubt, by the political wisdom of Owen himself. The Owen men had full control of the con- vention and outnumbered the Donnelly amen, and they concluded to be satisfied with the potentialities of the situation wita- out invoking them for the humiliation of the sage of Nininger. The proposition. was to indorse the action of the entire Minne- sota delegation gt St. Louis, and thus by implication the course of Mr. Owen, who stands accused by Donnelly of treason to the populistic planks caYjing for the initia- tive and referendum in his work on the resolutions committee... But it was certain that the adoption of. such a resolutioa would call forth bitter ‘opposition from Donnelly and thus opa} a’¢ontroversy, the end of which might be_4 séfious split in the fusion forces. aa Indorsed Lind. ‘The Owen men, therefore, swallowed their desire for vindication: ana prevented an open rupture. John Lind, silver republican, was indorsed for goverhér, without even #0 much as a whimper of opposition from the middle-of-the-road contingent. The demo- cratic nominees, Alex,,McKinnon of Polk, for treasurer, and Jujjus J. Heinrichs of Hennepin, for secretary. of, state, were also indors2d, and for the remaining two places were named Maj. J. M.’Bowler of Renville, for lieutenant governor; and John A. Keyes of St. Louis, for attorney. general. .The four Places on the electoral ticket were filled, the candidate from this; the fifth district, being Sylvester Keliher, the fellow prisoner of Debs, the American Railway Unton lead- er. Still, tt 1s not all plain sailing for the fusion forces, as there is another Richmond in the field in the person of the doughty Dr. A. A. Ames, ex-mayor of Minneapolis. The doctor, who was erstwhile a reform democrat, is now a mid-road populist, and he lost no time after the, indorsement of Lind by the populist convention was as- sured, in announcing himself as an inde- rendent candidate, standing on the Omaha and St. Louis platforms and on a state plat- form of his own making. The doctor once ran for governor and came within less than 3,000 votes of defeating the republican nom- inee. But times have changed since then, and it is not probable that he will cut any figure at all in the gubernatorial canvass. The fusionists do not hesitate to say plain- ly that his candidacy is inspired by the republicans, and that republican money is furnishing him the sinews of war. How- ever that may be, the doctor is in the field and will put his namo on the ticket by petition, VIRGINIA’S CAMPAIGN] Preparations for Bryan’s Visit to Richmond. GEN. FIELD ON THE STUMP FOR BRYAN The Republicans Making an Earnest Fight, RAILROADS FOR GOLD ‘Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., August 29, 1896. There was probably never before held such a deliberate and “strictly business” political gathering within the limits of Virginia as the gold convention this week. The representatives from various counties and districts were practical, sensible, con- servative men, with good, hard, business sense. They knew what they wanted the convention to do before they came, and When the regular business procecdings were taken up there was no difficulty as to the methods of procedure. It was rumored that there would be a large number of re- publicans to take part in the proceedings of the convention. This was not true; not a single republican participated in the pro- ceedings. On the other hand the delegates were made up of well-known democrats, who refused to accept the doctrines of the Chicago platform. Such democrats as 8. V. Southall of Albemarle, Jartes Bum- gardner, jr., of Staunton, Alexander Ham- ilton of Petersburg, Jeseph Bryan of Ri mond, and a long list of those who have worked faithfully heretofore to assist the nominees of ihe democratic party on to victory, were the leaders. The movement was worked up by a com- mittee of two in ten days, and when the gathering was called to order there were about 300 delegates representing all indus- tries and professions. ‘The electors and delegates-at-large who were chosen to represent Virginia at the national convention in Indianapolis are among the most prominent and influential members in the state. T. M. Scott of Ac- comac end J. K, Edmondson of Lexington are known all over the commonwealth; Judge Edmondson is one of the ablest jurists in Virginia; Joseph Bryan of Rich- mond, delegate-at-large, represented Vir- ginia at the conference held in Indianapo- lis; James Bumgardner, jr., of Staunton, delegate-at-large, who was permanent chairman of the convention, is counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; 3. V. Southall of Albemarle is a life-long demo- crat; E. C. Venable of Petersburg is a Promineat tobacconist of the cockade city. The free silverites are no less active throughout the state now than heretofore. They are making appointments for free silver speeches all over the state, and not- withstanding the fact that they are dis- posed to cliim everything and di the republicans, as well as the sound mon- ey democrats, haven’t a shadow of a chance for carrying the state, they are carrying on the most vigorous and aggres- sive campaign seen in Virginia for a gen- eration. The state committee is making many dates for campaign speeches. Already twenty-seven of these have been announc- ed. Among the prominent speakers who are to make campaign speeches in the in- terests of free silver are Congressman Will- jam A. Jon Hi. W. Flournoy, president of the Bryan and Sewall Club of Rich- mond, and ex-secretary of the common- wealth; William B. Petit of Fluvanna, Pe- ter J. Otey, Congressman from the sixth district; Senator H. D. Flood, who was nominated for Congress from the tenth district; Congressman Claude A. Swanson of the fifth district. Bryan and Crisp in Virginia. W. A. Watsen, chief of the department of democratic campaign speakers, expects to have ex-Speaker Crisp, Congressman Livingston of Georgia and H. R. Bland to make addresses in Virginia during the cam- paign. Arrangements are already being made to give Mr. Bryan a rousing ovation when he comes to Richmond. The Bryan and Sewall Club will be prepared to offer the Nebraska orator an enthusiastic wel- come, and the biggest auditorium in the state, seating over 10,000 people, will be en- gaged for the speaking. An immense crowd will greet the free silver candidate here. At the meeting of the city democratic committee of Manchester Thursday night Chairman E. H. Wells, Who has served for two years, declined the renomination, and Capt. A. CG. Atkisson was chosen his suc- cessor. A vigorous campaign in favor of Bryan and Sewall has been commenced in Manchester. The movement has to contend with the strong scund money sentiment of which the railroad operatives of that elty sre the chief factors. The Southern railway ind the Richmond and Petersburg railway both have shops in Manchester, and hundreds of men employed by these two railroads have organized and are fight- ing hard for the cause of sound money. Judge H. W. Flournoy has just returned from a campaign tour through Surry ccunty. He reports the free silver senti- rent there overwhelming. He was greeted by a large audience at Surry Court House to hear the currency question discussed. There has been considerable comment throughout the state as to why Col. John Beil Bigger, clerk of the Virginia house of delegates, and for years secretary of the state democratic committee, was succeeded in the latter position by Joseph Button, clerk of the Virginia senate. Since Col. Bigger published a card stating that the rumor that he retired from the secretary- ship of the committee because of ill health was untrue, and that he was never in bet- ter health, he has taken the stump for Bryan and Sewall. Field for Bryan. The statement of General James T. Field, to the effect that he stood upon the plat- form of the democratic party because the democratic party had gone over to the peo- ple’s party, is being widely quoted through- out the state by the opponents of the Chi- cago nominees. General Field stated, on being congratulated at Orange for his re- turn to the democratic fold, that he had been standing on that same platform for years, and that it was a case of the tail wagging the dog. The populists, he said, were satisfied and they would pull together with the advocates of the Chicago platform for the election of Bryan. This is being used as a strong argument against the Chi- cago nominees by the sound money demo- crats and the republicans here, inasmuch as General Field has made so many speeches against the democrats and worked hard for their downfall in the state for years. Railroad Infiuence. The statements being made by the free silver leaders to the effect that the various railroad and manufacturing corporations in Richmond were adopting coercion as an effective method of making their employes oppose Bryan and Sewall and support a candidate on a gold basis are being inquired Into. The Chesapeake and Ohio has under its control about 12,000 voters. Of this number there. are about 6,000 men in Vir- ginia. It is a fact that Mr. Decatur Axtell, one of the vice presidents of the Chesa- peake and Ohio, strongly opposes the Chi- cago nominees, and has announced in the press that he could not indorse their plat- form. He was followed by a similar state- ment from President M. E. Ingalls of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big Four sys- tems, and who has been mentioned as a Probable nominee for president on the sound money ticket. President Ingalls has under his control about 20,000 men—per- haps more. He has anonunced publicly that, though he had been a democrat all his life, and loved the party, he would this year vote for McKinley and Hobart. In a speech at Hinton, W. Va., before the Rail- way Men’s Sound Money Club, 2,500 men applauded him vigorously when he stated thai in answer to the charge that the Ches. apeake and Ohio was intimidating its em- ployes, he wanted every employe to study the question at issue for himself, and then vote according to the dictates of his con- science. He added that he would not do it himself, and would not allow any other official in the company to coerce or intimi- date any man to vote in any manner. Republican Conference. Matters in the republican camp are live- lier than ever. The busiest day of the cam- paign at republican state headquarters was Thursday, when the steering committee Blackwell held an executive session and discussed af- fairs pertaining to the campaign. Repub- lican candidates from five of the congres- sional districts were present at this meet- ing, besides several party leaders. It is thought that the question of the two factions in the fourth and second districts and the divided condition of affairs there was carefully considered at the mecting, for that night a conference was held in Petersburg at which were present several who had besn at the Richmond meeting, and the matter of the contest in the fourth district was brought up. It was announced that Colonel Lamb, who had been north to confer with representatives of the national republican committee in regard to the with- drawal of Gee in the fourth district an Dyer in the recond district, had not effect- ed any settlement of the trouble, and inas- much as the nattonal committee had not passed upon the matter, Mr. Gee, in the in- terests of McKinley and Hobart and har- mony in the fourth district, withdrew and left Thorp the only republican candidate for Congress from the fourth district. As yet Dyer has not withdrawn frcm the fight in the second district and republican affairs there are rather disintegrated. It is thcught that the state committee will try to take some action in this matter at an early date if one of the candidates does not withdraw. Mr. William P. Kent, son of Lieutenant Gevernor Kent, has been chosen by the re- publican state committee as editor of the new republican weekly paper to be started here in a few days. The paper will be run in the interests of the campaign, and Mr. Kent says it will be turned into a perma- nent daily {f McKinley and Hobart win in Virginia. It is a striking fact that the son of the Neutenant governor of Virginia, and also Mr. Charles T. O’Ferrall, jr., son of the present governor of Virginia, are both stanch republicans, since their fathers have been strong democrats for years. Both gentlemen are working for republican suc- cess in Virginia, and both of them live in Wythe county. JI.8.1 IN OLE KAINTUCK. The Sitantion Badly Split Up and the Result Uncertain. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. LOUISVILLE, August 29, 1896. Every Kentuckian is a politician now, and nothing but politics is discussed in the workshops, on the farms and in the business houses. i The biggest vote in years was polled last Novembcr, when there were exactly 1 votes cast in the gubernatorial election, but from all indications this vote will be eclipsed this year. Never before in the istary of the commonwealth has so much interest been manifested, and a trip through the state would lead one to the opivion that exch one of the 352,571 voters oi last year was a politician. Of course, the main topic is the currency question, and while every man espouses one side or the other, there is a general desire to be- com? better informed on the issue which has forced its way to the front in national afairs. 1c is this unusual activity on the part of the pecple, this restiessness and teverishuers on the part of the great mass of the voters, thet is causing the party besses so much worry. They are at a loss to know what will eventually become of it, and they are fairly swept off their feet by the resistless demand for facts—net the usual campa’ about the currercy question. else will do them. The oldest and mo: perienced leaders are unable to place ix tucky to their own satisfaction at the com- ing election. The money question has caused such a general shaking up that party lines have been, in a measure, done away with, and the fight is no longer be- tween the democrats and republicans, as it has been in the past, but the issue in Ken. tucky now is betweer free silver and gold, and this issue has brougnt about a general realignment of the old parties. Added to this, the advent of the third party, or the national democracy, has made the situa- tion even more bewildering than before. The democrats are fighting desperately. They admit that if the republicans capture the state this time it will be years be- tere it is again anchored in the democ column, and they are making the str of their lives. Besides, Kentucky 18 con- sidered part of the solid south, and its thirteen electoral votes will be needed to elect Bryan. It is looked upon, with In- diana, as a pivotal state, and for this rea- scn the coming of Bryan two weeks hence is looked forward to eagerly by the advo- cates of fre silver. It has been definitely settled that Bryan will speak here about the 10th or 12th, and in Lexington the fol- lowing day, and arrangements are in pro- gress to give him a royal welcome. He is expected to turn the tide in favor of free silver and to give the cause such a boost that the republicans and sound money dem- ocrats will never be able to overcome it. This is evidenced by the fact that he will speak in the two congressional districts that are most in doubt, and that he will leave alone those points where there is either no hope or where silver has an easy victory. Col. Breckinridge Again. In this, the fifth congressional district, the democrats have nominated ex-Gov. John Young Brown for Congress against Walter Evans, the republican member now. The gold democrats have also announced their determination to pst out a candidate, and, from all indications, he will be Judge Alex. P. Humphrey, on: of the most repre- sentative, as well a8 ond of the strongest, men in the district. With three candidates in the field thére fs hktdly a doubt but that Col. Evans, will be’returned to Con- gress and that €k-Gov. Bhown will go down in defeat With the exception of the old Ashland district—the “bloody seventh”— the gold democrats will’make no other ef- forts to send a man to Congress. In the gn chaff—but cold, hard facts And nothing ex- - Ashland district W. C. P. Breckinridge has bolted the action of the Chicago conven- tion and has come out for Congress on the independent gold ticket. His great personal following, added to the disaffection that ex- ists among the democrats in that section, makes him a dangerous competitor, and the famous old district never had so ex- citing a campaign as the one which is just Col Breckinridge se eS = mping the district, and announ That never make the race red hot from start to finish. The republicans may make a nomination, and if they do they will se- lect in all probability Judge George Denny, who contested the seat of W. C. Owens (dem.) in the last Congress. But it is vaguely hinted that they will not make a nomination, and that they will fuse with the sound money democrats in an effort to defeat the free silver candidate, who will in all probability be Charles J. Bronston of Lexington. Bronston is heartily disliked by the republicans on account of his bull- dozing tactics in the late legislature, and believing that they have no chance to elect a man themselves they will repay a debt which they owe to Col. Breckinridge by supporting kim. It will be remembered that Col. Breckinridge and his friends gave all the support that they could to Judge Denny in his race against Owens two years ago, after the former had been defeated by Owens in one of the hottest primaries that the district ever knew, and for this the re- putlicans feel that they should repay the favor, especially if the defeat of the dem- ocratic nominee can be encompassed thereby. John D. Carroll, Evan Settle, Chaglic Bronston and W. C. 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Simon Bolivar Buckner for Vice President on the ticket that is to be nomi- nated at Indianapolis, and if Mr. Watter- son is not the choice of the convention for President, and as very few of his Kentucky friends think he wiil be, it is more than likely that Gen. Buckner will be given the second place on the ticket. In regard to Mr. Watterson and the talk of nominating him for President on the national demo- cratic ticket, his Kentucky friends think that he would not only refuse to ac cept the place, but that to nominate him would be bad politics. In the first place, it wae Mr. Watterson was until’ a few years ago a pronounced free silver man dif nominat tt ernally bobbing wu against him. They think it would be worne than Carlisle's speech in 187s, and that he and his friends would find it difficult to make a fight against such odds. Besides, the Kentucky sound money democrats feel that in this issue the north and the south must be united, and that it would be emi- nently proper an d fitting to place a north- ern man at the head of the ticket and @ southern man for second place. In any event, they regard the nomination of Mr, Watterson as a misfortune, and Cleveland or Bragg is more favore: Contrary to expectations, Gov. Bradley has made a speech for ‘the republican ticket. A few days ago at Ashland he opened up for the national ticket. and though he was a trifle sparing in hiegpraise of his ancient enemy, McKinley, he took his dose of crow about as well expected, and it is now announced th, will stump the state for the rep els the repub: jican cas —> ENSLAVING THE WHITE RACE, Gov. Altgeld Snys a Cri. Confronts the Republic. Gov. Altgeld opened the political cam- paign in Illinois at Girard, I, Saturday. Delegations were present from many other cities, and farmers for miles around. A Frocession of marching clubs, 5,000 strong, esccrted him to the public square, where he addressed an audier and 20,04) people. Part as follows: “We are now in the midst of the great- est crisis that ever confronted this repub- lic. In 1861 the Unicn was confronted with dissolution, which meant anarchy in re- Spect to government and a perpetuation of © of between 15,000 Gov. Altgeld spoke in African slavery. In 18% we are confronted with the question of perpetually enslaving the white ra. We are confronted with the question whether we shall install the English Shylock as a taskmaster over the ge all erations of Americans that are yet “We are not proposing to wrong an: body. We are proposing to give every man his due. We are not suggesting experi- ment: we are demanding a return to the experience of the world for thousands of years, and we say that this experiment of trying to force the nations of the earth on- to a gold basis for the benefit of re creditors is ruining the American people. We propose to pay back the English cre itors in the same money th ve us, and silver. We propose to give them that shall have the same purchas- ing power, that will buy as much property and as much labor of every kind as the dollars they gave us. W; to pay them principal and intere actly the ame money which they gave us: and we say that their act in getting silver de- monetized and gold made dearer, after they had succeeded in getting our bonds and notes, so as to compel us to pay in @ different kind of money from what they Save us—to pay in dollars which cost twice as much sweat—twice as much blood—was a fraud and a crime against civilization. “I ask you to support Bryan and human- ity against McKinley and plutoc y. ask you to support the institutic fathers against the dictation of foreign Shylocks. I ask you to sustain a policy which gives every man his due on the one hand, and on the other will make it pos- sible for every industrious and intelligent man to make a living.” The governor was listened to attentively, and cheered most enthusiastically. J. M. Graham followed him in a strong speech. pi The Masanchusctts Democracy. The silver wing of the Massachusetts de mocracy won a victory over the gold men in the state committee Saturday, Bryan and Sewall being indorsed by a vote of 22 to 12. A motion to indorse the Chicago ticket and platform was defeated, the mat- ter being referred to the state convention, which meets next month, by a vote of 18 to 17. Then a motion to “unequivocally’ indorse the nominees without specific men- tion of platform was made. George Fred Williams sent a letter, re- the state committee A mo- fusing to recognize unless the gold men were expelled. tion was made requesting si to resign, but it was vo The gold men, however, raid they would resign when the state convention adopts @ free silver platform, but not befor: The executive committee agreed unant- mously upon P. J. Farley, a Lowell sliver- ite, for temporary chairman of the state convertion. Take No Substitute. Gail Borden Eagle Brand <e———_CONDENSED MILE Has always stood FIRST in the estima- of the American People. 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